The county also plans to reconfigure Lot E by making the Court Avenue access point, where vehicles currently exit, both an entrance and an exit. Cars will no longer be able to access the lot from Main Street. The lot's stormwater treatment features will be improved, as well.

Lot E will be closed for the duration of construction, which is scheduled to end in September, officials said. The project coincides with reconstruction of a collapsed area on Mulligan's Hill on Maryland Avenue. Combined, the projects will result in 59 temporarily unavailable parking spaces out of the 594 total spaces downtown, according to the county.

Construction hours will be between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Officials said they didn't expect traffic along Main Street and Court Avenue to be impacted by the project.

Downtown Ellicott City will soon see more pedestrian, parking and stormwater improvements as the county kicks off a series of new public works projects next month, County Executive Ken Ulman announced Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Ellicott City’s Bethel Korean Presbyterian Church became the first nonprofit organization in Howard County to sign an agreement to install stormwater management improvements on its property in exchange for a waiver of the county's new stormwater fee, which is being collected...